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Travel journalist Rudy Maxa and Washington, D.C. restaurateur Daisuke Utagawa present three distinct regions of Japan, focusing on the nation's food a...

Fukushima used to be a wonderful place. Unfortunately, since March 11, 2011, "Fukushima" has been superseded by another name: Nuclear Disaster Zone. S...

Four people left behind between generations? One director does almost all the work? Katsuki Kuroyanagi’s first feature film, with minimal budget and s...

A short documentary visiting some of Rashômon’s key locations, featuring interviews with former staff from the Daiei-Kyoto Studios.

On March 11 2011, after a magnitude 9 earthquake, a giant tsunami destroyed most of the north eastern japanese coast, killing almost 20,000 people.

The first DVD release of two Okada Yukiko videos, "Okada Yukiko in Switzerland" and "Okada Yukiko Memories of Switzerland", both released in 1985, on...

2011. Fukushima. Keiko's life changes when her friends are swallowed up by the tsunami. Two years later, unable to mourn, the former trawler captain e...

A variety of foreigners share their experiences of living in Japan.

A documentary about Tama, a female calico cat who gained fame for being a station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line...

In 'Sakura Petals: The Samurai' we leave to the South and we stop in Kurashiki, one of the few cities in Japan that was not bombed during the WW2, pre...

Japan ist ein Land voller Gegensätze: Technische Errungenschaften stehen alten Traditionen gegenüber. Neben Millionenstädten findet man unberührte Nat...

Writes Ando, "Oh! My Mother was the first work I made using a newly bought 16mm camera I had purchased with the writer Shuji Terayama in Paris. This p...

A 19-minute short film featuring the six performances of the Japanese performance art group Grinder-Man. Only released on VHS.

How the Japanese process American pop culture and make it their own -- a mind-bending odyssey through cultural mixing.

Angela Aki's Piano Hikigatari Live Naniwa no MY KEYS 2008 performed at Osaka-jo Hall on September 7, 2008.

Animated short film for Shinsei Kamattechan's song "Ruru's Suicide Show on a Livestream."

This documentary follows the legendary Japanese photographer as he continues to find new ways of seeing the visual assault of Tokyo’s streets and remi...

Angela Aki's Piano Hikigatari Live MY KEYS 2008 in Nippon Budokan filmed on December 26, 2008.